Anth - Indroduction

• the traditional art, literature, knowledge, and practice
• disseminated largely through oral communication and behavioral example
• part of every group with an identity
• what people believem do, know, make, and say

the study of folklore and folklife

• elements of the built world deemed to have “universal cultural value.”
• what people have made or make

• the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills (and objects of the built world associated with them) that are culturally recognized
• transmitted between generations
• recreated in reaction to environment, nature, and history

places and landscapes that have been shaped or influenced by human occupation.

A yearning to manifest in the present and carry into the future a quality or feeling from the past, real or imagined.

• retaining and recalling past experiences
• fallible, edited with each recall

• captivation, great liking and connection
• holds spellbound, enamoured
• a psychological state induced by a magical spell
• dreamy or alternatively makes us acutely focussed
• not always positive (fear, paranoia, disillusionment)

• characterizing folklore as old and peasant
• allows for justification of a clockwork (mechanistic) universe

• the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will
• any act intended to cause change

• a complex activity by which individuals create culture and society, and become critically conscious human beings
• a cycle of action-reflection-action
• willful, controlled, and intentional

• self-determination
• intentionality
• creativity
• rationality

anglo-saxon word meaning "history"

a witch's personal magical history

to cast a spell

• sense of alienation, estrangement, and loss of meaning
• non-participating consciousness
• obsessive materialism
• all acts are projects which are measured for their success
• economic and environmental chaos
• master narratives

• totalizing ideological systems
• claim to contain all the answers to everything

• mechanism of disenchantment
• appropriation and distortion of folk figures for national or commercial agendas

• separation of mind and body in Western thought
• alienation of the mind-self because the individual experiences life as an observer rather than a participant

engagement of the self with life

philosophical metaphor for the transformation of the self in the process of psychic self-realization

a method of reasoning that compares and contrasts opposing points of view in order to find a new point of view that will incorporate whatever is true in the originals

the opposing points of view in dialectic reasoning

the new point of view that emerges out of dialectic reasoning

• people could know everything there is to know by reason alone
• dreams and imagination cannot be trusted because they are irrational
• life exists only if quantifiable therefore purpose is to measure and calculate life

demands submission, relinquishment of control, and immersion into the deeper mysteries